To the north of the highlands are snow-capped mountains that stretch for thousands of miles.

To the east of the highlands lies a series of remote mountain villages.

Because it is so remote, it has been almost forgotten by the world, and the only one that is a little famous is White Horse Town.

To the south of the highlands is one of the two great rivers of the Golden Land, the Hanshui River.

Its north bank is the north border, and the south bank is the east border, and there is a city not far to the south, called Broken Leaf City, which is also the city that Lawson must pass through for the eastern trade.

To the west of the highlands, there is a marquisate called the Warm Wind Basin, the lord is the God-given marquis of Grodel, and there are sixteen baronies under the territory.

And during this time, the towns and villages around the highlands were spreading a dream-sounding news.

"The town of Crescent in the north of the highlands recruits free lords, and when they go, they will give them houses, land, and jobs, and pay 5 crowns for settling-in."

No one knows if the news is true or not, but it is spread on the streets.

The hearts of the low-level people in each territory were stirred up, and they were as excited as cats in spring.

Naturally, the news also spread to Whitehorse.

To the north of Whitehorse, the rebuilt owl sentry and the high-ranking warrior Anglo also heard the news.

He sat on the top of the mill in the middle of the owl sentry, chewing a reed boringly in his mouth, and his brown-black eyes looked out at the distant farmland, which was full of melancholy.

"This ghost life is really not human!"

He has now been promoted to a high-ranking warrior, but just because he is a southerner, and because he has corrected Baron Morey's crimes before, he has been ostracized by all kinds of overt and covert.

A high-ranking samurai would nest in this sentry where birds don't every day to show people the mill.

It's breath-holding!

Seeing that the sun had set over the horizon and the sky was already dark, the voice of the vice-captain came from the mill.

"I said Anglo, dinner is ready, come down and eat, don't be like a young master, you have to shout every day!"

The voice is very polite, although he is the vice-captain, he basically has no respect for himself as the captain, just because he is a native of Whitehorse Town.

If it was before, Anglo would have endured it with nowhere to go, but now, he doesn't plan to waste his life in this place.

With a little force, he jumped off the top of the mill more than ten meters high, turned around and walked into his room, packed up a few casually, took a few luggage, and then took an ordinary iron sword, turned around and went out.

The vice captain's eyes widened: "It's getting dark, you still have to go out?" ”

Anglo stepped forward and slapped the vice-captain in the face with a crisp 'snap' sound.

The vice-captain covered his face and looked at Anglo in horror, and roared loudly: "You traitor dare to beat me? ”

Anglo raised his hand and slapped him again, and there was another 'snap' sound.

The vice-captain immediately screamed.

"Traitors are beating people~ Traitors from the south are beating people~ Come and help ~"

Angrew took a deep breath, suppressed the idea of smashing the man's mouth with a sword, and rushed out of the owl sentry with an arrow, and then ran wildly, all the way to the west.

Rosen. Filand, the young Divine Grace Mage, once single-handedly destroyed the necromantic legion of the evil mage Damsis, and easily captured Canretto, successfully trying the evil baron.

Now, the boy has been canonized as a baron of Crescent Town, and he has recruited people all over the world.

Anglo was not surprised by this news, but was full of emotion.

"People are really different."

He was born in a merchant family in Baisha City in the east, his family is quite wealthy, he has practiced martial arts since he was a child, and he originally thought that he would stay in Baisha City for the rest of his life.

But the world is unpredictable, when I was young, I relied on my own skills to beat a scoundrel who bullied a young girl on the side of the road, but I didn't expect that the scoundrel was still a nobleman.

The aristocratic scoundrel was unwilling to be beaten, and found someone to take revenge on him, and burned his father's shop to ashes, and even his parents were burned to death in the fire.

He killed the nobleman to avenge his blood, but he couldn't stay in his hometown, so he had to flee to the north, and he met a demon baron again.

As he ran through the wilderness, Anglo remembered the young mage again.

"I heard that he was also born as a commoner, and even a native of White Horse Town, but he became a lord in a short period of time, and his deeds are being praised everywhere."

"Perhaps, he is the illegitimate son of God left at the bottom, and now he has broken free from the mud and returned to heaven."

"I don't know if he will take me in if I go to him?"

As I ran, I was hungry and couldn't help but regret it.

"I was too impulsive just now, I should have filled my stomach before I ran away."

But since he has run out, there is naturally no reason to go back.

I grabbed a few small animals in the field, peeled them, removed the offal, and chewed them vigorously in my mouth.

He is no stranger to this kind of life, when he escaped from Baisha City, in order to avoid the pursuers, he ate raw meat for half a month.

In the days that followed, Anglo was on his way to Crescent in the Highlands.

He was a high-ranking samurai, and his feet were several times faster than ordinary people, even faster than horses.

Four days later, at night, he stood on a cliff and saw Crescent Town in the distance.

The town is brightly lit, and on the fields outside the town, the stone huts with farmers in the east and west are also lit, and when viewed from a distance, it looks like a sky full of stars around the moon.

Anglo felt a warm feeling of returning to the civilized world from the wilderness, and his nervous mind, which had been tense, suddenly relaxed a lot, and the fatigue of many days of travel also dissipated.

Coming down from the cliff, he continued to run.

After running for a while, he suddenly found that a group of dark shadows were also rushing towards Crescent Town in front of him.

He was no stranger to this situation, as it was often encountered these days, and they were also free people who had traveled thousands of miles to Crescent Town.

It was night, and in the spirit of companionship, he chased after him to say hello.

"Hey~ guys, you're going to Crescent Town too?"

There were about five or six of them in the group, and when they heard the sound, they all stopped and turned to look at Anglo.

Through the moonlight, Anglo discovers that the other party is a family, a middle-aged couple with four children, large and small.

They were dressed more decently than the average farmer, but they were dusty and tired, and they had apparently been on the road for many days like Anglo.

When the man saw Anglo, he was a little wary: "Man, you also defected to the Crescent Lord?" ”

Anglo nodded: "Or else?" ”

It was about five or six miles away from Crescent Town, and when he arrived at the ground, it was estimated that it was already nine o'clock in the night, so he suggested: "Why don't you find a place to rest?" Hurry again tomorrow? ”

The family shook their heads: "If you want to rest, you have to rest at the bottom of the city wall, this wilderness is too dangerous." ”

Anglo felt right, too: "Let's be together, then?" ”

"Okay."

So the two groups went together.

Unexpectedly, after running for a mile, I met a husband and wife again, so I continued to be together.

When they finally ran to the bottom of the city wall, the team had grown to twenty or thirty people, and near the city gate, they found that a long big house had been built near the city gate, and the words "rest inn" were written on the door of the house.

There was also a peculiar little house at the entrance of the inn, which was brightly lit and smelled of food, and there was a small window in the front of the house, behind which there was a long and not short line.

Anglo was already hungry, and subconsciously lined up at the back of the line.

He asked the queue in front: "Hey~ man, what's going on here?"

The man in front of him had come earlier and knew something.

"It's a makeshift relief station provided by the baron, giving five salted potatoes, a slice of meat and a bowl of water for free, and when you're done eating, go to the back longhouse. There are floor bunks inside to sleep in. ”

Anglo was very happy: "Oh~The Baron is really merciful~"

A warm meal on a cold night in late autumn, as well as meat, is really heartwarming.

And as soon as he said this, many others also followed: "Praise God ~ Praise the Lord ~"

Soon it was Anglo's turn.

The person behind the small window was a fat middle-aged aunt, and when she saw that Anglo was tall and strong, with an iron sword pinned to her waist, she asked, "Are you a samurai?" ”

"Yes."

"Are you planning to join the lord's army?"

Anglo thought about it, except for a martial arts, he didn't have any other skills, and he was afraid that he could only go to the army to make a living, so he nodded.

"Yes."

The aunt behind the window gave him a large slice of fatty bacon and 10 salted potatoes.

"The lord has an order, and the samurai who came to respond to the recruitment will give double the food, and this is all yours."

"Oh, thank you, lord."

To be honest, five potatoes are really not enough for him to eat, and double servings are just right.

Anglo took the bacon, took a hard bite, and a thick aroma of meat exploded in his mouth, and then he took a bite of salted potatoes and drank a sip of water, and a full sense of happiness suddenly appeared in his heart.

"The meat is so fragrant~~"

The fat aunt urged: "Okay, don't block the people behind, go to the house to eat." When he had finished eating, he threw the wooden bowl into the sink at the door. ”

Anglo immediately turned and went to the longhouse on the side.

As soon as I entered the house, I felt a warm feeling, which dispelled the chill of the late autumn night.

The house was really long, more than 50 meters long and more than 10 meters wide, with a few dim windproof oil lamps hanging on the roof, and a fire pit dug in the center of the house, in which a lot of charcoal was added.

You can also see that the floor is covered with many neatly cut dry dry straw mats, the mats are very thick, and many of the mats are already occupied, but many are still empty.

Anglo found an empty cushion and sat down, and ate his food with relish.

When the warm food was in the stomach, my mind was suddenly filled a lot, and I couldn't help but flash a thought.

"It's really worthy of being a mage lord favored by God~~"

"Kindness, generosity, wisdom~~"

"If you can accept my allegiance, I will definitely protect Crescent Town with my life!"

Fleeing from his hometown at the age of twenty, and wandering for ten years to see the hardships of the world, he truly understands the rarity of a good lord.

He was gobbling up his food when suddenly there was the sound of other defectors talking.

"Crescent Town does have a good lord, and Crescent Town is indeed a good place, but I'm afraid that the good times won't last long."

"Why?" A person next to him asked.

Anglo pricked up his ears to listen.

The man spoke in a worried voice.

"The lord is a mage, but the lord's wife is a female mage, and a female mage will not have children."

"There are no children here, when the lord is old, who will the title pass on?"

There is a humane: "I said, you are just worrying, the lord can still find a lover to have children, find seventeen or eighteen, you can always give birth, what are you afraid of?" ”

"That's an illegitimate child, the lord is happy, can the lord's wife be willing?"

A third person joined the call.

"If you want me to say, the heir is not a big deal. What is really terrifying is the snow-capped mountains to the north. ”

When he said this, everyone looked at him, and Anglo was also shocked.

Indeed, to the north is the Falling Snow Mountains, and I heard that there was an invasion of ice dwarves two years ago, and there was a tragedy in which the town was destroyed.

But after being shocked, he was not afraid, but faintly hot.

He is a high-ranking samurai, others are afraid of war, he is not afraid!

He also wants to make a career on the battlefield.

Another disdainful voice came to my ears.

"What you people say, I laugh at it."

"You know this, the Flowing Number Master of the Famous Continent will not know?!"

"Look at this tall and sturdy wall, the ice dwarves can break through it?!"

That's true.

The atmosphere was a little stiff, and someone came out to play a round: "Hey~ Everyone is just chatting nonsense, why are you still serious?" ”

By this time, Anglo had finished eating the bacon and potatoes and drank all the water.

As the fat aunt reminded, he put the water bowl into the sink outside the house, and he lay back on the thick hay mat, stretched his limbs lazily, and the fatigue of many days came up together.

Before he fell asleep, the calm face of the young mage came to his mind.

"I don't know if he remembers me."

"I probably don't remember, the lord is so busy, how can he have the heart to remember a little person in a remote mountain village?"

(End of chapter)